Thesaurus results for PONTIFICATE

pontificate

verb

as in to rant

disapproving to speak or express your opinion about something in a way that shows that you think you are always right We had to listen to her pontificate about the best way to raise children.

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Recent Examples of pontificate From a purple-pod terminalia tree a crimson-breasted shrike pontificated at us. —

AFAR Media, 30 Oct. 2025 In the 1960s, Canadians hungered for public intellectuals pontificating on the distinctiveness of their identity. —

Dónal Gill, The Dial, 28 Oct. 2025 This is the mark of a visionary—not waiting for consensus, but creating the future while others pontificate about it. —

Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025 Rather than the writer pontificating about how Pfleger needs to retire from active priesthood, how about a better use of his time by advocating the notion that pedophile priests should be retired to jail. —

Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pontificate

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Verb

Those are just a few of the questions that audience members are ranting and raving their way through while exiting the Hayes Theater.

— Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Apr. 2026
Was there ever a great Final Four that didn't have one guy in a suit (or pullover) lording over the media room, ranting in the locker room or pointing fingers on one of those sidelines?

— ABC News, ABC News, 1 Apr. 2026